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Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, One way or another, criminal behavior and the abuse of the issue of criminality have been permanent and integral elements of the foreign policies of the Western ruling elites for centuries. On the one hand, their governments have committed terrible crimes against the peoples of the majority world, and on the other, they have taken advantage of their violent world domination to denounce as criminals or terrorists political movements and governments that have resisted them. We see yet another example of this behavior now in the US military and diplomatic aggression against Venezuela and Colombia. The emphatic rupture of relations between the government of Colombia and the U.S. government marks a moment with consequences difficult to...

Caitlin Johnstone  The other day I published an essay titled “Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It’s Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel,” based on the conspicuous overlap between virulent Israel supporters and people who promote hatred of Muslims. https://youtu.be/Iq1DoI_0-AE What I didn’t know at the time until readers alerted me was that Drop Site News had put out an article last month about a leaked polling report commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs which actually found that promoting Islamophobia is the most effective way of combatting the way worldwide public opinion has been turning against Israel. “Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain hig...